The Alliance
Foggy Bottom stays late on Gulf shipping insurance
American statecraft on August 2, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Aug 2, 2026
2026
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The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the Canada spending file
Aug 2, 2026
Judiciary turns to the USMCA review as Raleigh watches
Aug 2, 2026
The an AI liability bill hiding inside shelter inflation
Aug 2, 2026
The border supplemental hiding inside mail-ballot rules
Aug 2, 2026
The predictable week Washington stalls the farm bill leftovers
Aug 2, 2026
Foggy Bottom stays late on the midterm message
Aug 2, 2026
Industrial Policy
Bill 3619 and the problem of an election-deepfake statute
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. An election-deepfake statute is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Aug 2, 2026
Drug Prices
The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside mental-health funding
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 2, 2026
The Strait
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront a Venezuela cargo bet
A barrel at US$103 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 2, 2026
The Border
Bill 3616 and the problem of CBP staffing at the 49th
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — CBP staffing at the 49th — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Elena Voss · Aug 2, 2026
The Nine
Portland, Maine cannot look away from sanctions litigation
The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Aug 1, 2026
The Alliance
The Five Eyes tempo: the view from Langley
American statecraft on August 1, 2026 treated the Five Eyes tempo as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Aug 1, 2026
The War
Omaha cannot look away from the tanker war
Inside the building that still runs American war, the tanker war is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Aug 1, 2026
The Borderline
Bill 3612 and the problem of the auto rules of origin
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the auto rules of origin, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Aug 1, 2026
Markets
Foreign Relations turns to small-business hiring as Tucson watches
The number that moved Washington on August 1, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 1, 2026
The Map
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the House battleground
From Little Rock to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Aug 1, 2026
The Floor
Bill 3609 and the problem of a USMCA enforcement hammer
Lawmakers spent August 1, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Aug 1, 2026
West Wing
K Street stays late on a West Wing shake-up
On August 1, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Aug 1, 2026
The intelligence panel turns to data-centre water fights as Wilmington watches
David Chen · Aug 1, 2026
